“The largest snapshot of the week was no doubt snapshot 20180122. The snapshot provided KDE Applications 17.12.1, Frameworks 5.42.0 and the beta version for KDE’s next Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of Plasma 5.12. Tumbleweed users can try out the new items in the 5.12 LTS like the new KDE Store, which brings a wide selection of addons,” Douglas DeMaio wrote in a weekly report.

openSUSE’s Dominique Leuenberger also gives us an insight into what we should expect from the next snapshots that will be released for openSUSE Tumbleweed this week. For example, users will be able to install the recently released Mozilla Firefox 58.0 “Quantum” web browser, the GCC 7.3 compiler, the Linux 4.14.15 kernel, CryptSetup 2.0, and even OpenJDK 11 Tech Preview for the adventurous ones.

Apart from that, it would appear that openSUSE Tumbleweed will once again switch back to the Liberation-Fonts as Liberation2 Fonts will disappear, and SunRPC support will be disabled in the GNU C Library to make room for TI-RPC, a port of Sun’s Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux, along with Glibc 2.27. Until then, make sure you keep your Tumbleweed systems up-to-date.